César Afonso, former inspector of the Judiciary Police (PJ), talks about the investigation into the homicide that killed Portuguese physicist Nuno Loureiro. The suspect is also Portuguese Cláudio Valente. Both were colleagues at Instituto Superior Técnico, in the late 90s.
Two Portuguese men were involved in a tragedy in the United States. Cláudio Neves Valente, 48 years old, is suspected of having days after allegedly carrying out a where he studied. Cláudio Valente was found dead this morning near a warehouse in Salem, New Hampshire.
Cláudio and Nuno had a connection: they attended the same academic program at Instituto Superior Técnico between 1995 and 2000, before the murder suspect went to study in the USA. An event that the authorities were unable to discover in time to prevent Nuno’s death.
César Afonso, former inspector of the Judiciary Police (PJ), believes that the FBI carried out research into “the history of events at Brown University, particularly in that Physics department”, after the attack that killed two people and injured nine last Sunday. However, the investigators “did not mention that the facts that led to the crime were around 20 years ago”.
“What we didn’t think was that this period of time would be so long. If the investigation had been carried out over a 20-year cycle, we would have reached the individual and, perhaps, the murder of Nuno Loureiro could have even been avoided.”
